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From: [email protected] (S.P. Brown)
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Subject: Re: From Sourcerer In His Convalescence
Date: 29 Aug 1995 15:41:06 -0400
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In article <[email protected]>, Sourcerer writes:
>Have you ever seen The Anderson Tapes? It was made in the late sixties.
>Sean Connery. Thief gets released from prison and immediately begins to
>contact his old gang and puts together a fine plan to sack and loot an
>upscale apartment building. He is observed every step of the way by every
>public, private and secret agency you can imagine, caught on film and
>tape...and *none* of it was aimed at him (which was the point of the
>film)...he was just captured by processes of other intentions.
The Lawrence Sanders novel (his first) on which this film was based puts
your point across even more vividly, The book is epistolary--the text is a
collection of transcriptions of the various surveillance tapes. The reader
never "sees" the Sean Connery character, only infers his presence and his
acts.
ayebrown
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